Partial Robot
@partialrobot.bsky.social
Social scientist; Cancer-haver; Baltimore- enjoyer; Special education and disability; Ambivalent about the discourse
It’s really something that he doesn’t see the obligation as one to report truthfully, or accurately. Just “fairly” which is twisted into “if not entirely, at least in part, positive about the President”
Welker: "Do you agree with the president's ban [of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico]?"
Barrasso: "We all respect and value the freedom of the press; it's in the Constitution…The press has an obligation to report fairly, and the president doesn't see it happening that way."
Barrasso: "We all respect and value the freedom of the press; it's in the Constitution…The press has an obligation to report fairly, and the president doesn't see it happening that way."
September 20, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It’s really something that he doesn’t see the obligation as one to report truthfully, or accurately. Just “fairly” which is twisted into “if not entirely, at least in part, positive about the President”
There are some thinkers who, when I first encountered them, I thought “these are interesting ideas, but aren’t they a little silly? irrelevant to day-to-day life? Are these folks kinda up their own butts, maybe?”
And those same thinkers now seem vital to understanding absolutely everything.
And those same thinkers now seem vital to understanding absolutely everything.
Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"
September 20, 2026 at 1:54 AM
There are some thinkers who, when I first encountered them, I thought “these are interesting ideas, but aren’t they a little silly? irrelevant to day-to-day life? Are these folks kinda up their own butts, maybe?”
And those same thinkers now seem vital to understanding absolutely everything.
And those same thinkers now seem vital to understanding absolutely everything.
Having a blast at the Baltimore Book Fest. I really love this dang city and its wonderful weird diverse stylish people. Very glad to be here!
September 19, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Having a blast at the Baltimore Book Fest. I really love this dang city and its wonderful weird diverse stylish people. Very glad to be here!
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Come meet these little guys at the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend in Waverly!
My husband crocheted some Cthulhus to help promote his new book Kevin the Werewolf. (Available where fine books are sold a.co/d/0fHoLJVH)
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
September 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Come meet these little guys at the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend in Waverly!
Come meet these little guys at the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend in Waverly!
My husband crocheted some Cthulhus to help promote his new book Kevin the Werewolf. (Available where fine books are sold a.co/d/0fHoLJVH)
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
September 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Come meet these little guys at the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend in Waverly!
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People from all over the world end up at Baton Rouge or Shreveport or whatever to clean its waters and cure its cancers and these jetski dealers want to watch them squirm because it makes them feel big. Stalker state.
Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new, far-reaching law that dramatically increases surveillance of researchers. #lalege #lagov #laed
New Louisiana security council puts foreign researchers under microscope • Louisiana Illuminator
Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new law
lailluminator.com
September 18, 2026 at 11:01 AM
People from all over the world end up at Baton Rouge or Shreveport or whatever to clean its waters and cure its cancers and these jetski dealers want to watch them squirm because it makes them feel big. Stalker state.
My husband crocheted some Cthulhus to help promote his new book Kevin the Werewolf. (Available where fine books are sold a.co/d/0fHoLJVH)
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
September 18, 2026 at 4:06 AM
My husband crocheted some Cthulhus to help promote his new book Kevin the Werewolf. (Available where fine books are sold a.co/d/0fHoLJVH)
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!
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great art articulates eternal truths
![script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read
ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]
CURTAIN](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:64mdicpo7sq4k5bx2z3m2jo6/bafkreia7vy7yqqyb7ytslx43odsuqsi4etojsjjntlqcrsguwncynwrfpm)
September 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
great art articulates eternal truths
I have a substantial stash of yarn. It’s nice to have yarn on hand, but it’s a pain to store.
I can’t reduce the stash though, because often I’ll start a stash project but find out that I don’t have enough to finish it. Then I have to buy more! And I use some and then stash the rest 🤦♀️
I can’t reduce the stash though, because often I’ll start a stash project but find out that I don’t have enough to finish it. Then I have to buy more! And I use some and then stash the rest 🤦♀️
September 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I have a substantial stash of yarn. It’s nice to have yarn on hand, but it’s a pain to store.
I can’t reduce the stash though, because often I’ll start a stash project but find out that I don’t have enough to finish it. Then I have to buy more! And I use some and then stash the rest 🤦♀️
I can’t reduce the stash though, because often I’ll start a stash project but find out that I don’t have enough to finish it. Then I have to buy more! And I use some and then stash the rest 🤦♀️
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Fwiw it's straightforward right now why this is happening; and it's the same reason why the global far right supremacist eliminationist movement is happening, the christian extremist apocalyptic immenantization is happening, etc. People are bug fuck out of their minds in denial of the climate crisis
in 30 years people are going to wonder how we got caught up in the AI extinction hysteria while a real mass extinction was happening and we did very little to stop it
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
September 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Fwiw it's straightforward right now why this is happening; and it's the same reason why the global far right supremacist eliminationist movement is happening, the christian extremist apocalyptic immenantization is happening, etc. People are bug fuck out of their minds in denial of the climate crisis
I couldn’t put my finger on it in the moment, but it felt wrong to see so much veneration yesterday for first responders who bravely ran towards danger to help in an America that fully endorses the ‘double tap’ attack designed to kill exactly those people who bravely run towards danger to help.
September 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I couldn’t put my finger on it in the moment, but it felt wrong to see so much veneration yesterday for first responders who bravely ran towards danger to help in an America that fully endorses the ‘double tap’ attack designed to kill exactly those people who bravely run towards danger to help.
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it's hard to escape the conclusion that the people currently governing the United States are too stupid to realize just how disastrous and world-changing the defeat they have led their country into really is
#BREAKING Houthis have seized control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coast: govt military official
September 11, 2026 at 2:52 PM
it's hard to escape the conclusion that the people currently governing the United States are too stupid to realize just how disastrous and world-changing the defeat they have led their country into really is
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A reflection, 25 years later.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-siege
The Siege
25 Years Since
www.unpopularfront.news
September 11, 2026 at 1:32 PM
A reflection, 25 years later.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-siege
If your answer to “why are people MAHA?” doesn’t include the giant amounts of advertising money spent on exacerbating anxieties about health in order to sell products and services with dubious claims, then it is, at best, incomplete.
September 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
If your answer to “why are people MAHA?” doesn’t include the giant amounts of advertising money spent on exacerbating anxieties about health in order to sell products and services with dubious claims, then it is, at best, incomplete.
One time I called the customer service number for a company and got the AI bot. The AI bot couldn’t do what I needed but wouldn’t transfer me to a person because the product I was inquiring about did not include live support. So I decided to waste their tokens and kept asking the chat bot abstract…
September 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
One time I called the customer service number for a company and got the AI bot. The AI bot couldn’t do what I needed but wouldn’t transfer me to a person because the product I was inquiring about did not include live support. So I decided to waste their tokens and kept asking the chat bot abstract…
When I feel overwhelmed by all the terrible things that are happening, I take some kind of action that I know will make something good happen.
Giving some cash to this org is one way to make good things happen. Join me if you can spare it.
Giving some cash to this org is one way to make good things happen. Join me if you can spare it.
Baltimore, one of our great civic orgs needs us. Asylee Women Enterprise, which helps asylum seekers, torture + trafficking survivors, and other forced migrants, rebuild their lives here, must rapidly leave their space of 10+ years. Please give to help them move to their own forever home in Hampden!
A Forever Home for Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE)
We’re asking people who believe in our mission to help us reach our goal and build a permanent home for AWE and the communities we serve.
givebutter.com
September 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
When I feel overwhelmed by all the terrible things that are happening, I take some kind of action that I know will make something good happen.
Giving some cash to this org is one way to make good things happen. Join me if you can spare it.
Giving some cash to this org is one way to make good things happen. Join me if you can spare it.
Just saw a Bears jersey with “Percolator” on the nameplate on the back and I’m not sure if there is a more Chicago item in existance.
September 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Just saw a Bears jersey with “Percolator” on the nameplate on the back and I’m not sure if there is a more Chicago item in existance.
Assuming the best case scenario: that we have free and fair elections that dump the GOP from power in ‘26 and ‘28, the Dems are going to be handed a GIANT bag of shit. Trump’s gonna leave a huge crisis in Iran, trade wars, Social Security, and the debt—plus a decimated civil servant corps.
Social Security benefits will be cut for tens of millions of retirees in late 2032, unless Congress takes action first.
Social Security insolvency: What it means, when it’s coming and why it’s a problem
But depending on how Congress acts, future payouts of Social Security benefits may be smaller.
nbcnews.to
September 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Assuming the best case scenario: that we have free and fair elections that dump the GOP from power in ‘26 and ‘28, the Dems are going to be handed a GIANT bag of shit. Trump’s gonna leave a huge crisis in Iran, trade wars, Social Security, and the debt—plus a decimated civil servant corps.
When I was a kid, Dolly Parton was kind of a joke in pop culture—so many reductive references to her body, her blonde hair, and perceptions of her sexuality. It’s really touching me to see people paying tribute to her creative genius, business savvy, and philanthropy, without any jokes.
August 28, 2026 at 9:35 PM
When I was a kid, Dolly Parton was kind of a joke in pop culture—so many reductive references to her body, her blonde hair, and perceptions of her sexuality. It’s really touching me to see people paying tribute to her creative genius, business savvy, and philanthropy, without any jokes.
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“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’”
The painting:
The painting:
August 25, 2026 at 2:10 AM
“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’”
The painting:
The painting:
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I want to expand on this in a short thread.
Fascism sucks.
It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature.
We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.
Fascism sucks.
It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature.
We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.
That said, I think at this point, we can conclude that fascism is a latent political force in basically every country, to a greater or lesser degree and so you need to be thinking, "what if my country goes fascist? what if a neighboring country does?" and plan for how to avoid or deal with that.
August 24, 2026 at 2:31 AM
I want to expand on this in a short thread.
Fascism sucks.
It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature.
We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.
Fascism sucks.
It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature.
We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.
What’s the worst imaginable consequence of too zealously rejecting “race science”? Knowledge production is slowed because people are overly careful to avoid topics that have to do with race?
The consequences of being too accepting of “race science” is literally genocide.
Seems clear where to err!
The consequences of being too accepting of “race science” is literally genocide.
Seems clear where to err!
August 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
What’s the worst imaginable consequence of too zealously rejecting “race science”? Knowledge production is slowed because people are overly careful to avoid topics that have to do with race?
The consequences of being too accepting of “race science” is literally genocide.
Seems clear where to err!
The consequences of being too accepting of “race science” is literally genocide.
Seems clear where to err!
I don’t support academic freedom for its own sake as a moral good. I support academic freedom because I think it advances the search for truth to let smart people follow their own questions rigorously and fearlessly.
It doesn’t advance the search for the truth to have smart people engaging with…
It doesn’t advance the search for the truth to have smart people engaging with…
August 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I don’t support academic freedom for its own sake as a moral good. I support academic freedom because I think it advances the search for truth to let smart people follow their own questions rigorously and fearlessly.
It doesn’t advance the search for the truth to have smart people engaging with…
It doesn’t advance the search for the truth to have smart people engaging with…
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Gotta appreciate the sheer chutzpah of claiming that Nathan Cofnas, a man whose only intellectual project is the rehabilitation of racist pseudoscience, is a *defender* of academic standards.
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
forbetterscience.com
August 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Gotta appreciate the sheer chutzpah of claiming that Nathan Cofnas, a man whose only intellectual project is the rehabilitation of racist pseudoscience, is a *defender* of academic standards.